Vernacular.ai: Kalaari Capital invested an undisclosed amount in startupVernacularAI.ai. The investment was done as a part of Kalaari Capital’s accelerator program Kstart. The Bengaluru-based startup launched its first B2C product earlier this year called Aisha, an AI-based personal assistant in Hindi.

Live History India: Ganesh Natarajan, former chief executive officer of Zensar Technologies and chairman of Nasscom Foundation, invested an undisclosed amount in Bengaluru-based digital content platform Live History India, through his 5F World startup platform. Cyrus Guzder, former promoter of AFL, also participated in this round. The LHI platform will showcase historical facts through videos and content contributed by historians across the country and will make revenue through advertising as well as partnerships as content providers.

Genie: Chennai-based hyperlocal delivery platform Genie raised $250K from a group of undisclosed HNI investors. The startup had earlier shut down its services due to lack of funds. The newly raised funds will be utilised in reviving the platform operations.

Dial4242: Mumbai-based ambulance booking mobile app Dial4242 raised $154K (INR 1 Cr) in Seed funding round from an undisclosed angel investor. The raised funds will be used for the purpose of R&D, market research, product development and operations.

Telr: Singapore-headquartered payment gateway Telr raised $3 Mn Series B investment from Innovations East. The startup will use the recently raised funding to build out and enhance its core product proposition and roll out new payment methods. The funding will also be utilised to scale up operations in focus markets, especially India and other emerging markets.

TAC Security Solutions: Cyber security startup TAC Security Solutions raised an undisclosed amount of funding from William H May, former Vice President of IBM. With this, William has also joined TAC’s board.

Ahmedabad-based networking and learning platform for colleges AlmaMapper acquired campus hiring solutions company VibrantMinds. The acquisition will help AlmaMapper to expand its services across India and will give it access to more than 300 companies.

K-Startup Grand Challenge, a Korea-based accelerator programme is inviting applications for the second batch of startups that will kick-start in August 2017. The applications will remain open through June 7 and 50 high-potential startups from around the world will be selected to accelerate in Korea for four months.

The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) launched its Laboratory for Innovation, Venturing and Entrepreneurship (LIVE), a business incubator and entrepreneurship development center. In the first batch 12 startups have been selected, of which five have been the ventures of IIM-K alumni.

Pitney Bowes Inc. is inviting startups to apply for its Accelerator Program focussed on software startups in sectors such as customer information management, mobile, data analytics, location-based services, ecommerce management and machine learning. The deadline for submitting applications is June 30, 2017 and and selected startups will have access to up to $9,000 Microsoft Azure Cloud Credits over 12 months and five Microsoft Visual Studio subscriptions for one year.

Pune-based, design-led accelerator DesignGild announced the first cohort of startups for its six-month intensive programme. The two startups are Bengaluru’s QtPi and Pune’s RXHealth. The startups will undergo a boot camp which will commence on May 22, 2017.

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